Kitagawa Utamaro. The Fancy-Free Type, from Ten Types of Female

Physiognomy, c. 1792-93, color woodblock

with mica

ukiyo-e (floating world)/ “iki,” the idea

of “stylish chic”

Suzuki Harunobu. Evening Bell at the Clock, from Eight

Views of the Parlor series, c.1765,

woodblock

brocade prints/ haiku clubs in Edo/

diminutive features/ suggestion of voyeurism/ architecture composed of

diagonals

Suzuki Harunobu. Shimizu, from Seven Komachi, c.1767,

woodblock

a courtesan and her teenage apprentice/

inscribed verse suggests a melancholy mood/ the knots of an obi/ mitate

(parody)

Sakai Hoitsu. Kosode with

blossoming plum tree, early nineteenth

century, hand-painted ink and pigment on silk

satin

Furisode with scenes of tea cultivation,

early nineteenth

century, paste-resist dye on

habutae

Katabira with garden landscape,

mid-eighteenth century, paste-

resist and indigo dyeing, silk and metallic thread

embroidery, and pigment on plain-

weave ramie

Suzuki Harunobu. Pilgrimage on a Rainy Night, late

1760s, color woodblock print

Suzuki Harunobu. Whispering, c. 1766-68, color woodblock

print

Katsukawa Shuncho. Two Young Men by the Riverside, c. 1780s, hanging scroll, ink and color on

silk

kabuki actors/ wakashu/ gesture of greeting/ suggestion of male

innocence and sexuality

Katsukawa Shunsho. The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro in Shibaraku

Role, c. 1777, woodblock

archetypal aragoto role

Utagawa Kunisada. Hour of the Monkey, 1816-7,

oban

depiction of the onnagata/ oban

woodblock

Katsushika Hokusai. The Greave Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, c. 1826-33, woodblock print oban, ink and colors on

paper

influence of Western

perspective/Mount Fuji/ nature as an

active force/ meishoe/ Manga

Katshshika Hokusai. Mount Fuji in Clear Weather from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,

1830-2, oban woodblock print

Katsushika Hokusai. Amida Waterfall on the Kiso Highway

from A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces, c.1883-4,

color woodblock print

Amida waterfall/ geometry of nature

Ando Hiroshige. Fireworks over Ryoguku

Bridge, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856, woodblock

print

Ando Hiroshige. Sudden Shower over Ohashi

Bridge, from One Hundred Famous Views

of Edo, 1856, color woodblock print

Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige. Scattered Pines, Tone River, from

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856, color woodblock print

Ando Hiroshige. Plum Garden at Kameido, from One Hundred

Famous Views of Edo, 1856, color woodblock

print

the Sleeping Dragon Plum / emphasis on

negative space